Albert Einstein and His Dreams

If I ask you who is the smartest, most intelligent person who has ever lived in the world, what would you answer?

I think among those who answer this question, there must be a lot of people who say Einstein!

Yes, Albert Einstein was a very intelligent person who changed our lives and amazed us all with his intellect.

But do you think Einstein's main characteristic was his mind and intelligence?

I can also hear those who say that he had a strong sense of curiosity. 

That is also true. Every scientist is curious. 

In fact, you need to add perseverance to it; when you are curious and get bored after a while, you don't have much chance of discovering anything. 

I think scientists should also be a bit stubborn. 

A little stubbornness is also necessary to discover something. But not too much, because stubbornness means that you insist on something even if it is proven otherwise. Futile persistence is not very compatible with science.

You know, besides all this, Einstein's main characteristic was that he was a dreamer.

Einstein had a lot of thought experiments. They're called thought experiments, but in fact there were no physical experiments, they were all theoretical experiments that he set up in his mind. That's why they're called thought experiments, in a sense, they're imaginings of what would happen if this happens.

I won't tell you about the details of the theories of general and special relativity, but I will try to explain how he arrived at these theories.

These theories emerged when Einstein first did thought experiments in his mind and then put his thoughts into formulas.

What excites me the most is how he was able to establish a relationship between matter and energy.

Can you imagine, the formula known simply as E=mc2 actually tells us that matter=energy, energy=matter. Based on this tiny formula, many secrets of the universe have been discovered today.

Moreover, this is how Einstein arrived at space-time, and that photons are both waves and particles.

So how did he come to these conclusions?

It wasn't that easy, of course. As I said, Einstein loved to dream. 

When he was just a little boy, he was obsessed with the compass his father showed him, how could the compass needle change direction without touching anything? This was the first question that stuck in his mind.

He was not on good terms with the professors at school, partly because he was stubborn, and partly because at university he spent more time on his own ideas than doing what the professors wanted. 

That's why none of them accepted him after university.

The father of a friend of his barely found a job at a patent institute, so he had a job to sustain his life.

But as I said, in his imagination he thought of traveling on a beam of light. Einstein thought a lot about light.

Einstein was the first to think that light is not a continuum but a beam. 

But as I said, what really excites me is that he thought about the relationship between matter and energy. Until that day, no one had established this relationship. 

In fact, he never forgave himself for the fact that the Americans built the atomic bomb based on this theory and dropped two atomic bombs on Japan.

In one of the thought experiments Einstein conducted for another subject that was on his mind until he came to this conclusion, he thought that a person in free fall motion in an elevator whose ropes were broken would feel as if he were in a spaceship moving through space in a vacuum.

When the spaceship is accelerating, that is, when it is accelerating, he thought that the astronaut inside would feel like a person standing on the earth. 

In this case, he concluded that a spacecraft accelerating with gravitational acceleration in space is the same as us being under the influence of gravitational acceleration on earth.

Yes, gravitation is the issue that stuck in Einstein's mind. He thought a lot about how to include gravity in his special theory of relativity.

Special relativity is Einstein's theory of objects moving at constant speeds.

General relativity, on the other hand, is the theory he developed for objects moving at accelerated speeds.

In a sense, Einstein added gravitational attraction to special relativity, which Newton could not find the cause of. 

Einstein realized from his thought experiment that acceleration, that is, acceleration, and therefore kinetic energy, is related to gravity.

Einstein's equivalence principle!

Einstein continues his thought experiment to develop his theories. 

He imagines that during the acceleration of the spaceship, a beam of light entering through the side window will fall on the opposite wall not in a linear line, but in a curvilinear path due to the acceleration. In other words, the photon of light will appear at a location below the window line from the point of view of the astronaut inside.

He concludes that if acceleration and gravity are the same thing, and if acceleration can bend light, then masses must be able to bend light.

Can you perceive imagination?

Einstein said that imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited to what we currently know and understand. Imagination, on the other hand, extends beyond knowledge.

From these thought experiments, Einstein realized that gravity bends space and put forward the concept of general relativity, which we call general relativity, which is based on the bending of space-time.

Of course, this destroyed Newton's theory of gravity, which had been accepted as true for centuries. 

Einstein's theory even explained the rotation of Mercury around the sun, which Newton could not understand.

The first proof of Einstein's new theory will be made when astronomers observe that the sun, the largest mass near us, bends the light coming from the stars.

With this proof, Einstein would become a scientist recognized by the whole world. He receives invitations from all over the world and is welcomed with respect wherever he goes.

Even though people thought he had discovered something very important, they could not understand exactly what he had discovered.

With the experiments still ongoing, the bending of time, another difficult to accept issue in the theory, will be proven later on and Einstein will be recognized as one of the smartest people who ever lived.

How a simple patent institute clerk was able to develop these theories is still a mystery to many.

Let me end this article by saying never stop chasing your dreams.

In these painful days, I wanted to occupy our minds with other subjects. 

Science, science, science, science, this is the only way out!

Love and respect to everyone from Moscow